Hi all,

I've been trawling for ages with no luck on this problem - please help!

If I plug my camera (minolta z3) into any USB port on my XP Home SP2 computer, it will install and appear in device manager no probs. However, it does not appear as a drive in My Computer or Explorer so i cant read or write to the memory. All other USB pheriphals work ok : USB mouse / modem multicard reader / joystick / wheel / webcam ! If I boot windows into safemode (with networking), the camera appears as a drive in explorer and works perfectly...

If I remove all other usb devices apart from the camera, I still get the same problem. I've flashed my BIOS, updated my motherboard chipset drivers and got all the lastest stuff from windows update. Oh, and the camera works fine on my Win98 computer.This is driving me nuts!!

Other posts suggest that looking at drive assignments in Disk Management will help but Disk management freezes if the camera is plugged in.

I have a similar (and possibly linked) problem with my mp3 player, but this causes my PC to crash completely with an IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error. Again it works fine and appears as a mass storage device while running in safemode and on my Win98 machine. Incidentally, the camera also caused this BSOD crash until I updated the bios...

Anyway, I feel better already from having shared this grief! Any suggestions / help will be gratefully appreciated.. thanks all!

rob

PS/ this guy had almost exactly the same problem with his mp3 but I cant get in touch with him to find out if it was resolved :
http://forums.windrivers.com/showthread.php?t=56526